"Way Down in the Hole": Systemic Urban Inequality and The Wire. William Julius Wilson, Autumn 2011, Opinion. “The Wire is set in a modern…
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then Gary Shteyngart’s timely comic novel “Super…
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All six Republicans on the debt-reduction super committee have signed a no-new-taxes pledge, and that means the panel can only dig up extra…
With the imminent and long-awaited collapse of the brutal Khadafy regime, President Obama’s careful, persistent, and oft-criticized policy…
word “peace’’ disappearing from our national conversation? Armies of talking heads, bloggers, and op-ed opinionators assault us daily on…
The field of public opinion is one of the most diverse in political science. Over the last 60 years, scholars have drawn upon the…
Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence. Victoria Ivashina, August 23, 2011, Paper. “Theory predicts that there is a close link…
It's been obvious for awhile now that Muammar al-Qaddafi's days as Libya's leader were numbered, and the only question was how many people…
Medicare is going to be cut. That is inevitable. There is no way to solve the nation’s long-term debt problem without reducing the growth…